So i go out to candle the progress of my duck eggs i have under a banty hen last night and while reaching under her i only pull out 3 eggs, im thinking, what the heck, she had 8 under her? So i candle them and things look good. The night before i left the hen house door open, not a common occurance. I mention it to my 7 year old and he decides to set the live trap thinking a wild critter got the eggs the night before, i let him, meanwhile thinking that its a waste of time...........i was wrong, very wrong.
I wake up at 5:15 AM to go to work, i go to the hen house to open the door for the wave of chickens to feed, when there in the trap, was the black and white varmint. Dang it, i am going to be late, i call in and explain my situation, they give me a hard time and i go about getting rid of the critter.
I grab an old blanket and start walking slowly up to the trap, like ive done before, but this was different, this skunk had attitude, he stares at me sizing me up and picking a target site on me and flips around to show me his butt, i back up with the speed of a garbage truck driver!! I rethink things and approach from a corner, i start getting close when he spins around again, this time there is no turning back, i feel the "goo" hitting the blanket and i throw it over the trap, the smell is so pungent it instantly burns my nostrils rendering my sense of smell. I walk the trap over to the bath that awaits the skunk and in it goes.
Now, its off to work i go, my nostrils on fire, all i smell is "that smell". I go into the mini-mart for coffee and the homeless people looked at me like i stink, as i am thinking the same thing about them.
I procede on to work, i walk into the shop and the guys procede to give me a hard time, a skunk, ya right................until it hits them, the stench, they clear out of the shop like a four alarm fire and i am left standing there. I wash my hands with some powerful soap, thinking i hope i got it all (remember, my sense of smell is shot) and i ask the old guy in the shop to do the smell test on me, he oblidges and procedes to back away slowly!
I decide to call it a day and head home where i strip down to my skivies outside and head into the shower where my wife is, she asks what i am doing home, but before she could get the last word out she shouts, " holy $%^&, what the heck happend to you, you STINK". I explain the story to her (while she plugs her nose) and she darts out of the bathroom, to the kitchen, and grabs a can of speghetti sauce and hands it to me in the shower. Now, not only do i smell of skunk, but it looks like the aftermath of a bad night of drinking in the shower, not a friendly reminder of days gone bye.
So, here i sit after an eventful morning, waiting for my sense of smell to come back................anyone want to join me for a cup of coffee!!............I hope everyones day "smells like roses".........i wish mine did..................Jason
I wake up at 5:15 AM to go to work, i go to the hen house to open the door for the wave of chickens to feed, when there in the trap, was the black and white varmint. Dang it, i am going to be late, i call in and explain my situation, they give me a hard time and i go about getting rid of the critter.
I grab an old blanket and start walking slowly up to the trap, like ive done before, but this was different, this skunk had attitude, he stares at me sizing me up and picking a target site on me and flips around to show me his butt, i back up with the speed of a garbage truck driver!! I rethink things and approach from a corner, i start getting close when he spins around again, this time there is no turning back, i feel the "goo" hitting the blanket and i throw it over the trap, the smell is so pungent it instantly burns my nostrils rendering my sense of smell. I walk the trap over to the bath that awaits the skunk and in it goes.
Now, its off to work i go, my nostrils on fire, all i smell is "that smell". I go into the mini-mart for coffee and the homeless people looked at me like i stink, as i am thinking the same thing about them.
I procede on to work, i walk into the shop and the guys procede to give me a hard time, a skunk, ya right................until it hits them, the stench, they clear out of the shop like a four alarm fire and i am left standing there. I wash my hands with some powerful soap, thinking i hope i got it all (remember, my sense of smell is shot) and i ask the old guy in the shop to do the smell test on me, he oblidges and procedes to back away slowly!
I decide to call it a day and head home where i strip down to my skivies outside and head into the shower where my wife is, she asks what i am doing home, but before she could get the last word out she shouts, " holy $%^&, what the heck happend to you, you STINK". I explain the story to her (while she plugs her nose) and she darts out of the bathroom, to the kitchen, and grabs a can of speghetti sauce and hands it to me in the shower. Now, not only do i smell of skunk, but it looks like the aftermath of a bad night of drinking in the shower, not a friendly reminder of days gone bye.
So, here i sit after an eventful morning, waiting for my sense of smell to come back................anyone want to join me for a cup of coffee!!............I hope everyones day "smells like roses".........i wish mine did..................Jason
